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American academic receives antisemitic postcard from Britain demanding “Juden raus!”

A professor at Harvard Law School has received an antisemitic postcard sent from the UK.

The full details of the postcard’s message have been masked, but the sender addresses Professor Sanford Levinson by name and the message is clear: “Sandy,  You just got your like ass kicked. F*** you Hymie. We’re gonna drain the swamp at Harvard Law. Juden raus!”

The Nazi demand of “Juden raus!” means “Jews out!” and was also the name of a children’s board game, the goal of which was to round up Jews and place them at a “collection point”. The phrase “Drain the swamp” was used by supporters of Donald Trump during the presidential campaign as a shorthand for purging politics of corruption and corporate interests. “Hymie” is a Jewish name sometimes used by antisemites as a jibe.

Professor Levinson told the Boston Globe: “It certainly is as hostile as it could be…This is a level of antisemitic hostility that I have not seen before.”

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Campaign Against Antisemitism Meets United States Antisemitism Envoy

On Thursday, 29th January 2015, Campaign Against Antisemitism Chairman Gideon Falter met with the United States’ Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, Ira Forman, and representatives of other Jewish organisations from around Europe at a meeting in Brussels arranged by the European Jewish Association.

The discussion focussed on ways that the United States could help to fight antisemitism in Europe. The CAA asked the United States for help on four fronts:

  1. Highlighting the growth of antisemitism and the importance of taking firm action against it. The CAA raised President Obama’s absence from the rally following the terrorist attacks in Paris and the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and contrasted this with his presence at the funeral the late King Abdullah, a lifelong antisemite, Holocaust denier and funder of terrorism.
  2. Vocally supporting the British government in taking firm measures against antisemitism as it is likely to have to take bold steps that other European governments have not.
  3. Pressuring the EU’s Fundamental Rights Agency to formally adopt the “working definition” of antisemitism developed by the now-defunct EU Monitoring Centre on Xenophobia and Racism which has been adopted by the United States government.
  4. Ensuring that social networks based in the United States enforce their own terms of service in relation to hate speech and comply with legal requests by the British authorities for information on the perpetrators of hate crime online.

The Special Envoy and the Chairman of the CAA will be continuing their discussions by telephone.

Earlier in the month, Campaign Against Antisemitism’s Director of Communications met with Gideon Behar, the Israeli envoy for combating antisemitism.

We are seeking to recruit a Communications and Research Manager an Education and Outreach Intern to join our London office

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